Yellow cab goes green in chicago.

PRand — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:32:43 +0000

chicago loves the blues. now yellow goes green.
chicago is honoring a commitment made years ago to have a greener taxi. yellow is the first. yellow group plans an initial deployment of 100 new CNG taxis under its yellow cab subsidiary, which it says is america’s oldest and largest continuously operating taxi fleet.

Read more about CNG and how solar and wind are feeling the heat.

Resources:
what is cng?
inhabitat
chicago tribune
yellow goes green in dallas
green tech: solar / wind feel heat from cng
environmental leader
cleancngvehicles.org
cng industry

London’s new bus!

PRand — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:17:12 +0000

The double-decker is back. Scrapped by Ken Livingston in 2005 – he also ordered articulated ( locals call it a “bendy” ) buses in 2002 but it seems no Londoner likes them.
above: co-winner foster/ aston martin design

above: co-winner capoco design ( the bulgemaster )

above: héctor serrano, miñarro garcía andjavier esteban’s otherwise sensible runner-up has Union Jack hubcaps

Boris Johnson’s competition to design an heir to the Routemaster, the double-decker, has yielded two winners, and an eccentric convoy of runners-up. Our favorite is the Foster design but the article implies that the Capoco may have been selected by the bureaucrats before the competition.

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Yellow cab goes green in chicago.

London’s new bus!